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NAACL HLT 2009 combines the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of NAACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. NAACL HLT 2009 will feature full papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops.

Deadline for full paper submission - Monday, December 1, 2008 Deadline for short paper submission - Monday, February 9, 2009

NAACL HLT 2009 combines the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of NAACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. NAACL HLT 2009 will feature full papers, short papers, posters, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops.

The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in disciplines that could impact human language processing systems. We encourage the submission of short papers that can be characterized as a small, focused contribution, a work in progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or an interesting application note. A separate review form for short papers will be introduced this year.

NAACL HLT 2009 aims to hold two special sessions, Large Scale Language Processing and Speech Indexing and Retrieval.

The conference aims at bringing together researchers working on different aspects of the Baltic languages in a typological and theoretical perspective.

Call for Papers

During the last 150 years, the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and the extinct Old Prussian) have received much attention from linguists specializing on historical and comparative linguistics, etymology and Indo-European reconstruction. However, many aspects of the structure of these languages and their dialects remain understudied and virtually unknown to the general linguistic community. This is due not only to the lack of comprehensive typologically-oriented grammatical descriptions but also to the fact that Baltic languages are generally underrepresented in the 'discourse' of contemporary linguistics, even in comparison to many much more 'exotic' language families outside Europe. The conference "Contemporary approaches to Baltic linguistics" aims at bridging the gap between Baltic languages, on the one hand, and current trends in linguistic theory and language typology, on the other, and at attracting attention of the linguistic community to this rich and yet not fully investigated group of languages.

We are soliciting abstracts on any aspect of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Lithuanian and Latvian, as well as of their dialects and Old Prussian. We especially encourage abstracts putting the Baltic data in a broader cross-linguistic context, as well as theoretically-oriented work based primarily on the material of Baltic languages. Please note, that although the topic of the conference does no exclude diachronic studies (e.g. issues of grammaticalization or historical syntax, as well as any interesting aspects of Old Lithuanian and Old Latvian), we will NOT accept abstracts on etymology and comparative reconstruction.

Abstracts in Word and/or PDF format should be anonymous and must not exceed 2 pages (examples and references included), 12pt font size with 2 cm margins on all sides. Abstracts may be submitted in English or in Russian. Abstracts must be sent to baltistica.inslavgmail.com no later than March 25, 2009. Please, include in the body of the message your name, affiliation, and the title of your submission.